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| Manufacturer: Smith Micro Software Inc. |
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| List Price: $49.99 |
| Sale Price: $27.95 |
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Product Description |
The fun, quick and affordable way to create animations, Anime Studio is the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts.  Create your own cartoons and animations--the ideal solution for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts. Click to enlarge. | Complete Animation for Digital Artists Create and Import Content
Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint and fill tools. Easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast! Bone Rigging Saves Time
Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation. Advanced Timeline Control
Inverse Kinematics moves your character naturally between keyframes for smooth animations. Add sound, special effects, and preview in real time with multiple layers to edit your animation. Share Everywhere
Export your creations to the most popular web and video formats supported by FaceBook and MySpace, or upload your animation directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio. Anime Studio Debut Gets You Started Right Away  Import and animate your own video and artwork. Click to enlarge. |  Simple interface makes animation easy. Click to enlarge. |  Customize your workspace to your liking. Click to enlarge. |  Free Characters
Anime Studio includes Jace, Thorn, and many other exclusive, royalty-free, vector-based characters you can use for your own animations.
 Free Tutorials
Tutorials and sample files show you how to maximize Anime Studio's powerful features and get you animating right away.
 Import Your Art
Import your own illustrations or create unique characters for your cartoons. Animate anything within the reach of your imagination.
 Bring Photos to Life
Give life to your favorite photos. Import digital camera images, attach bones and easily turn your photographs into animated movies.
Features - New--User interface makes animating your creative vision easier than ever
- New--Anime Studio's Sequencer gives you the ability to easily combine Video and audio, with animation
- New--Upload your creations directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio
- New--Improved drawing tools make creating original artwork a snap
- New--Quickly make characters talk with built in Lip-Synching
- Includes lots of ready-to-use content such as characters, actions words and props
- Import Quicktime or AVI video
- Import layered Photoshop documents
- Pen tablet support lets you draw naturally with a pen tablet and recreate the sensation of drawing on paper
- Incorporate audio files such as WAV or AIFF
- Built-in tutorials and sample files get you up and running quickly
- Special effects like motion blur and shadows
- Export SWF, AVI, MOV, plus image sequences for the web, short or full length films
- Render up to 720x720 resolution
- Track, zoom, roll, pan, and tilt the camera
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Product Details |
- Anime Studio Debut 6 offers complete animation for digital artists--perfect for first time animators, hobbyists and digital enthusiasts
- Create your own art using intuitive vector-based draw, paint and fill tools; or easily import artwork from popular graphics programs and use pre-built content to get started fast
- Point-and-click to attach bones to your characters for easy manipulation and reduce production time over traditional frame-by-frame animation
- Inverse Kinematics moves your character naturally between keyframes for smooth animations
- Export your creations to the most popular web and video formats supported by FaceBook and MySpace, or upload your animation directly to YouTube from within Anime Studio
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Customer Reviews |
 Fun animation software, easy to get started, but not for true beginners |
| Review Date: September 21, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Natalie Mootz, Huntington Beach, CA |
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3BBP20E74TPN Bottom Line
If you already know a bit about animation techniques, Anime Studio Debut 6 lets you easily jump into making your own animated movies. On the other hand, if you don't understand terms like "key frames" and "walk cycles," you'll have a difficult time using it without some more study. When I was a beginning game design student, I used Maya and Photoshop to create animations. However, I think Anime Studio Debut 6 is much more fun and easy to use for animation than either of those programs and it also allows you to get up and running with your cartoons much more quickly. It's an extremely good value for the money if you want to start animating.
Strengths
* Easy to get started: The tutorials are one of the software's strengths. They are enjoyable, easy to follow, and very comprehensive in the use of the Anime Studio tools. However, the tutorials do not attempt to teach you much about important animation concepts. (You'll need to learn about rigging, timelines, walk cycles, etc., somewhere else. I recommend The Animator's Survival Kit or similar.). I animated a simple pre-made figure in about an hour using the Quick Start tutorial.
* The Bones System: It's a bit harder to create your first animation sequence from scratch than it was to use the Quick Start files, but it's MUCH easier than it was with Maya, thanks to the "Bones" system which makes rigging extremely easy and intuitive. (See my video demo.)
* Animate your own photos: Another cool feature of the software is the ability to animate photos or mix them into vector animations.
* Automatic lip-sync: Anime Studio Debut 6 has an automatic lip-sync feature that will instantly make your character's mouth move along with an audio file.
* You can create dramatic camera moves easily.
Other Notes
* It definitely helps to understand Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator concepts (layers, vectors, curves, channels, etc.). Although, I have to say, Anime Studio's method of making curves is MUCH more intuitive and easy to use than Photoshop or Illustrator.
* Be aware that the tutorials come in the form of PDF files rather than being software-based and are not included as a pre-printed manual in the box -- this means you'll have to alt-Tab between the PDF and the Anime Studio program to use them. Although the PDF tutorials are great, the online tutorials pretty much stink for this software since they are primarily geared towards the Pro version of the software, not the Debut version.
* Sometimes in the large User's Guide (231 pages) it's hard to tell which features are only for the Anime Studio Pro version instead of this version. For example, it covers using "Scripts," but there is no feature for scripts in the Anime Studio Debut 6 (non-pro) version.
* The software description makes it look like anyone can animate with this software, but you do need to have drawing skills or access to licensed artwork. If you can't draw a flower, it won't draw one for you. It also doesn't do cel shading for you or come with any textures or backgrounds. (You'll need the Manga Studio Debut 4 (Win/Mac) software for that.) You can create drawings with a mouse, tablet, or by scanning them in and tracing them.
* This software is a bit oddly named. You can make any type of 2-D animation you want, not just anime.
System Specifications
I did not test this on a Mac, but the software ran very smoothly on these two Windows computers with no slowdowns or freeze-ups:
- Vista Home Premium SP1 on an HP Pavilion dv2700 Notebook with an AMD Turion 2GHz processor and 3GB RAM
- XP Media Center Edition SP3 on a Dell XPS 410 Desktop with an Intel Pentium 2.8GHz processor and 4GB RAM
Don't forget to watch my 47-second video demo of how the Bones system works. |
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| Review Date: March 24, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Bruce Bulter, |
| Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R211229BPD1G7A The easiest thing to do is read the basic instructions, then the instruction manual on importing voice and synching using Papagayo. I spent2 hours practicing, 3 hours building this character, which is the basis of anything i need to do with it. Basically, build characters or scenes and put them together. the tracing feature is great, which is what I used. Well worth the money, you just need a lot of patience. And to be honest.. a long time for 7 seconds was 5 minutes recording audio and placing into voice synching, and 5 minutes tweaking the previously created character, so it really depends on what you are doing. |
Easy to use and affordable
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| Review Date: September 23, 2009 |
| Reviewer: maximum verbosity, Ohio USA |
I decided to give Anime Studio Debut 6 a try because my sons both enjoy creating animations and cartoons but have always used free trial software because the prices were out of our budget.
We installed it on two computers to see how it would run, both are Windows, one is XP and the other Vista. We had no problems installing or running this software on either system. We haven't tried it on a Mac yet.
My boys are 11 and 10 and were able to start a project immediately with very little instruction. You start of with a blank drawing board, then you can choose the option to begin your project with an existing image file or draw directly onto the canvas using brush, pen and paint tools.
The drawing tools are great and anyone used to digital art programs of any type will find this easy to use. It also includes a ton of bundled extras, including tutorial and starter files, and a character, object and animation library. Using the library is a great way to get the feel of how everything works and it's fun too.
This software offers simple, basic techniques for creating great animations but also has options if you want to create more advanced projects. You can stick with drag-and-drop and end up with great animations that can be saved as FLV, .MOV or .AVI file, or uploaded directly to YouTube. If you're already proficient with Corel or Photoshop and know what the terms "vector and layers" mean, you'll be able to make even more complex and professional looking animations.
Great for both beginner and advanced users, this is a great application at an affordable price. |
5 stars for ease of use - entry level animator
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| Review Date: September 24, 2009 |
| Reviewer: L. Gildart, Somerville, MA USA |
Many, many years ago, I worked as a MacTemp, which meant I had to be okay with learning new GUI software applications and different ways of using them pretty much on the fly all the time. Anime Studio Debut 6 is fairly intuitive. I was able to get it working well enough to play around in it very quickly, and, while I've used photo and video-editing software, this is my first foray into animation.
I'm sure that if I were doing this for a living, I would find it compromised or limiting, but for fun, for casual use, or for giving my son something creative to do in a medium he understands, I don't think you can do much better than this for the price.
I've always loved Smith Micro's products and customer service, as well. I haven't had any issues with this software, but the times I've contacted them regarding other products have all gone well. |
Best startup animation software I've seen
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| Review Date: September 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Once in a while, |
Anime Studio Debut 6 is like Flash in a few ways, but it's turbocharged and streamlined to focus on animation. If 2D animations are what you want to make, this is the app to get.
I think it's a good program for complete beginners too. A very basic tutorial on vector drawing is included, and there are additional video and text tutorials available in several places on the Web. (Some are for the Pro version of the software, but they cover techniques that can be applied to the Debut program.)
Just because it's not the full "pro" version of Anime Studio doesn't mean this isn't a robust and versatile package. It is. You can make complete videos with it.
If you are a beginner, be prepared for a long learning curve. It takes a while to get familiar with a program like this, but that's true of Flash, Photoshop, and every other sophisticated computer graphics program.
This is an excellent 2D animation program. And the Amazon.com sale price makes it a great deal. |
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